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Singaporean Mandarin (traditional Chinese: 新加坡 華語; simplified Chinese: 新加坡 华语; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Huáyǔ) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. Mandarin is one of the four official languages [2] of Singapore along with English, Malay and Tamil.
One of those is the word 番鬼 (pinyin: fānguǐ, Jyutping: faan 1 gwai 2, Hakka GR: fan 1 gui 3, Teochew Peng'im: huang 1 gui 2; loaned into Indonesian as fankui), meaning "foreign ghost" (鬼 means 'ghost' or 'demon'), which is primarily used by Hakka and Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese and Chinese Indonesians to refer to non-Chinese ...
Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin, commonly known as Singdarin [a] or Singnese, [b] is a Mandarin dialect native and unique to Singapore similar to its English-based counterpart Singlish. It is based on Mandarin but has a large amount of English and Malay in its vocabulary.
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12]
Many online courses in Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese and some other varieties are available through commercial, governmental and nonprofit websites catering to speakers of English and over a hundred other languages. [38] Free and Paid-for courses are also offered via podcasts. Software is also available to help students pronounce, read ...
Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin is the equivalent of Singlish in the Mandarin speaking world of Singapore. The word "Singdarin" has been used to name the Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin. Standard Singaporean Mandarin also differs from colloquial Singaporean Mandarin in terms of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.
Some older CEDICT data is also found in the Adsotrans dictionary. February 2012: ChE-DICC, the Spanish-Chinese free dictionary starts (currently beta) May 2017: CHDICT (11,000 entries) for Hungarian; CC-Canto is Pleco Software's addition of Cantonese language readings in Jyutping transcription to CC-CEDICT [4]